Ashley Park spoke with Harpers Bazaar about the new side of her character, Mindy, we’ll see in the second season of the hit show Emily in Paris.

What Ashley said about the writers’ room really resonates because we need more representation on screen *and* off screen. Ashley says, “One of the greatest gifts of ‘Emily in Paris’ is that Sarah Choi is one of the writers in the writers' room and has been in Paris both times. Having a Korean American, or just an Asian in the writers' room, especially as Mindy takes more space within the series, was just very vital.”

Ashley also spoke about the upcoming untitled film she’s in, which is the directorial debut from ‘Crazy Rich Asian’s co-writer, Adele Lim. “It truly is going to be the first movie of its kind. We had a gag reel, just for fun, the very last day of shooting, as a wrap gift. And I had a moment of dissociation—I really couldn't process that that was me or my friends there. I just had never seen Asian women be portrayed like that. Even if we've been able to be funny or sexy or smart or any of these things, it has always been one. It has always been for the benefit of another character, for the story at large. This was the first time I saw Asian women getting to be all of these different things that a human is—and for the benefit of their own story,” Ashley said.

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